Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure regulatory alignment in the energy market after Brexit.

The Government’s priority is to maintain affordable, clean and secure energy supplies for businesses and households. As part of this we share the EU’s ambition to make energy trading easier and more efficient by opening up national markets and increasing the level of interconnection between them.

We want to continue arrangements which allow the efficient trade in electricity and gas, both on the island of Ireland, and between the UK and continental Europe.

We continue to closely collaborate on current and future regulatory and technical arrangements. For example, I was pleased to be able to represent the Government at the Energy Council on 18 December at which General Agreements were reached on four legislative proposals within the Clean Energy package.